Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ 'Extract' figures from *.tex, *.ps, *.dvi or whatever works

[achim]

Hi

I've written a document containing some pstricks figures and other figure like files like psmatrix. Now, my supervisor wants to reuse these figures for other publications but is not keen on installing and using pstricks.

Hence, I'm wondering if there is an easy way to extract all figures form my document separately as *.png or *.eps files. Of course I could use the selection tool from my pdf viewer and save every figure separately. But bounding boxes would not be consistent for similar figures and the resolution is dependent on the current zoom.

Is there a way to automate this?

Cheers
Achim

[localghost]

The easiest was that occurs to me is to use the (auto-)pst-pdf package and compile your document directly with pdflatex (yes, you have read right). Pay special attention to the notes about shell escape in the manual.

This way you will get an additional auxiliary file that contains all pstricks pictures on separate pages in one PDF file. Assumed that your source file is called »jobname.tex«, the file with the pictures in it will get the name »jobname-pics.pdf«. You can extract the pictures to single pages (e. g. with GSview/Ghostscript) and if necessary convert them to EPS later. It should also work with the psmatrix environment. The pstricks manual also describes how you can externalize according stuff directly.


Thorsten

[achim]

Hi Localghost

First of all thanks for the reply and sorry that I couldn't get back to you any sooner.

I have now tried your suggestion. However, I seem to do something wrong.

Here's a minimal example:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{pst-pdf}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-all}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}


\usepackage{fancybox}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage[]{xcolor}

\begin{document}

\psset{unit=1cm, arrowsize=6pt}
\newcommand{\To}[1]{\TR{\ovalbox{\shortstack{\textbf{#1}}}}}

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
	\begin{psmatrix}[colsep=0.5cm, rowsep=0.5cm, nodealign=true]%
	\To{$|\red|$ } & [mnode=dot]	&	\To{$(\red)$ }	&	&	\\%
					&	\To{$)\red($ }	&	[mnode=dot]	&	[mnode=dot]	&	~$\cdots$ no p.i.%
	\end{psmatrix}%
	%
	\ncline{1,1}{1,2}%
	\ncline{1,2}{1,3}%
	\ncline[linestyle=dashed]{->}{1,3}{2,4}%
	\ncline[linestyle=dashed]{<-}{1,1}{2,2}%
	\ncline{2,2}{2,5}%
\caption{Branching of the stable equilibria for the two beam array with increasing DC from left to right.}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

When I compile via dvi-ps with \usepackage{pst-pdf} and \usepackage{auto-pst-pdf} commented out, it works fine.
With the two packages uncommented and compiling again dvi-ps I get an error; ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 31.
This may(?) be all right since I didn't compile via pdflatex as you suggested.
So, compiling pdflatex I get an ! Missing } inserted error which I can absolutely make no sense of...

Can anybody recreate this error and confirm that it's not a problem with my system?
Or even better; point out what I'm doing wrong here?

Cheers
Achim

ps: In my original document I have all the pstricks figures and graphs in a separate file wrapped in a \newcommand. This file is then included with \input directly after the begin document. The error messages are the same as described above so I don't think this is the problem.

[localghost]

Use only the auto-pst-pdf package, not both. And pay special attention to the notes in the manual regarding shell escape.

But your code contains an undefined control sequence (\TR) which makes it not compilable. See the critical line below.

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\newcommand{\To}[1]{\TR{\ovalbox{\shortstack{\textbf{#1}}}}}

So, please fix this first. Otherwise this comes to nothing.

[achim]

This is puzzling me, I can't get it working...

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-all}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}


\usepackage{fancybox}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage[]{xcolor}

\begin{document}

\psset{unit=1cm, arrowsize=6pt}
% \newcommand{\To}[1]{\TR{\ovalbox{\shortstack{\textbf{#1}}}}}

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
	\begin{psmatrix}[colsep=0.5cm, rowsep=0.5cm, nodealign=true]%
	\Toval{$|\red|$ } & [mnode=dot]   &   \Toval{$(\red)$ }   &   &   \\%
				&   \Toval{$)\red($ }   &   [mnode=dot]   &   [mnode=dot]   &   ~$\cdots$ no p.i.%
	\end{psmatrix}%
	%
	\ncline{1,1}{1,2}%
	\ncline{1,2}{1,3}%
	\ncline[linestyle=dashed]{->}{1,3}{2,4}%
	\ncline[linestyle=dashed]{<-}{1,1}{2,2}%
	\ncline{2,2}{2,5}%
\caption{Branching of the stable equilibria for the two beam array with increasing DC from left to right.}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

1) \TR is a wrapper for the Rnode in psmatrix (also this is a valid command when compiling dvi-ps-pdf), leaving that aside and using \Toval still does not quite work:
2) Taking the above code and compiling as below does not do the job either.

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pdflatex -shell-escape test.tex

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But I've checked parentheses a thousand times now, can't spot an error.

I'm sincerely sorry for wasting your time here...

[localghost]

[…] \TR is a wrapper for the Rnode in psmatrix (also this is a valid command when compiling dvi-ps-pdf), leaving that aside and using \Toval still does not quite work […]

Doesn't work for me neither. Since your sample code remains uncompilable for me, I took an example from the pstricks manual that certainly works for both of us.

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\listfiles
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}

\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}[!ht]
    \centering
    $
    \begin{psmatrix}
      U \\
      & X\times_Z Y & X \\
      & Y & Z
      \psset{arrows=->,nodesep=3pt}
      \everypsbox{\scriptstyle}
      \ncline{1,1}{2,2}_{y}
      \ncline[doubleline=true,linestyle=dashed]{-}{1,1}{2,3}^{x}
      \ncline{2,2}{3,2}<{q}
      \ncline{2,2}{2,3}_{p}
      \ncline{2,3}{3,3}>{f}
      \ncline{3,2}{3,3}_{g}
    \end{psmatrix}
    $
    \caption{\texttt{psmatrix} example from the \textsf{PSTricks} manual}\label{fig:psmatrix}
  \end{figure}
\end{document}

The \listfiles command in the very first line list all used files in the log. Here's my list.

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 *File List*
 article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size12.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
 fontenc.sty
   t1enc.def    2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX file
inputenc.sty    2008/03/30 v1.1d Input encoding file
    utf8.def    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
   t1enc.dfu    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
  ot1enc.dfu    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
  omsenc.dfu    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
pstricks-add.sty    2009/03/17 v. 0.13 package wrapper for pstricks-add.tex (hv
)
pstricks.sty    2008/11/26 v0.40 LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)
pstricks.tex    2009/05/19 v1.29 `PSTricks' (tvz,hv)
  xcolor.sty    2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
   color.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
  pdftex.def    2009/08/25 v0.04m Graphics/color for pdfTeX
pstricks-add.tex    2009/10/12 v3.35 `PSTricks-add' (hv)
pst-xkey.tex    2005/11/25 v1.6 PSTricks specialization of xkeyval (HA)
 xkeyval.sty    2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
 xkeyval.tex    2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
auto-pst-pdf.sty    2009/04/26 v0.6 Wrapper for pst-pdf
   ifpdf.sty    2009/04/10 v2.0 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
ifplatform.sty    2009/09/10 v0.3a Testing for the operating system
pdftexcmds.sty    2009/09/23 v0.6 LuaTeX support for pdfTeX utility functions (
HO)
infwarerr.sty    2007/09/09 v1.2 Providing info/warning/message (HO)
ifluatex.sty    2009/04/17 v1.2 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)
 ltxcmds.sty    2009/08/05 v1.0 Some LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)

catchfile.sty    2007/11/11 v1.2 Catches the contents of a file (HO)
     tmp.w18
 pst-pdf.sty    2008/10/09 v1.1v PS graphics for pdfLaTeX (RN,HjG)
graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
graphics.sty    2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
    trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg    2009/08/28 v1.8 graphics configuration of TeX Live
 preview.sty    2006/08/25 11.84 (AUCTeX/preview-latex)
   dvips.def    1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
 environ.sty    2008/06/18 v0.2 A new way to define environments
supp-pdf.mkii
tmp-pics.pdf    Graphic file (type pdf)
  t1cmtt.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
  t1cmss.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
 ***********

Packages are not up to date on my TeX Live 2009 system².

[achim]

Very interesting, your example works great.
I guess there is a problem with the nodes I'm using.

I'll try to figure out what exactly was the problem and let you know.

You've been a great deal of help to me, thank you so much!

[achim]

Thank you so much Thorsten!

Here's the working script

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-all}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}


\usepackage{fancybox}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage[]{xcolor}


\usepackage[sumlimits, intlimits]{amsmath}      %Math Type setting
\usepackage{amsfonts}                           %Math Fonts


\begin{document}

\psset{unit=1cm, arrowsize=6pt}
\newcommand{\To}[1]{\TR{\ovalbox{\shortstack{\textbf{#1}}}}}

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
	$
	\begin{psmatrix}[colsep=0.5cm, rowsep=0.5cm, nodealign=true]
	\To{\mbox{\textbar \red \textbar}} & [mnode=dot]   &  \To{(\red)}   &   &   \\
			&   \To{)\red(}   &   [mnode=dot]   &   [mnode=dot]   &   ~\cdots \mbox{no p.i.}
	\ncline{1,1}{1,2}
	\ncline{1,2}{1,3}
	\ncline[linestyle=dashed]{->}{1,3}{2,4}
	\ncline[linestyle=dashed]{<-}{1,1}{2,2}
	\ncline{2,2}{2,5}
	\end{psmatrix}
	$
\caption{Branching of the stable equilibria for the two beam array with increasing DC from left to right.}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Note the difference of the math environment. I was an idiot not enclosing the entire psmatrix in a math environment, but every node instead. (The reason why \TR was not recognised)

Compiling with pdflatex -shell-escape test.tex works brilliantly and I get the figures with the correct bounding box as a 'texfilename-pics.pdf' file (one figure a page).

Opening the *.pdf with GIMP and saving each figure as a *.eps is straight forward from here.

I hope this is of help as a reference in the future.

Again,
Thanks Thorsten!